During what Guy Debord called the society of the spectacle, false desires are created, consumed and satisfied by the passive victims of capitalism. The dangerous appeal of gangsta rap became an ...

Welcome to the Soulpolitan weekly feature, where we highlight the R&B singles worth your time. We’re going with a little R&B all the way through the picks this week: JID gets into an elaborate bit ...

How should we approach it? It would be tough to explain how great D’Angelo’s singing is. Even if we focus on his high-pitched, falsetto-heavy style of singing and describe how sensual and lyrical it ...

After two years removed from the Grammy-winning Alligator Bites Never Heal (outside of “Anxiety” and “Girl, Get Up”), she announced her return to hip-hop on Instagram, describing herself as the Swamp ...

Near thirty, with everyone counting down her clock and her father long gone, Grace Carter takes on the job of raising herself ...

Chrissi keeps a running count on a man whose calls she can’t stop answering, and she writes every exit over live horns and ...

With Patois and Zulu folded in beside his Yoruba and Pidgin, Fireboy DML carries one warrior from the church to the club and ...

On her first country record, the Memphis singer takes the honky-tonk sinner’s part that country handed its men and sings ...

One minute a girl is sat at the end of the queue for the ladies at 1am, waiting to put some more lipstick on; the next strangers are telling her that she looks unreal and passing a tube down the queue ...

Rest is a luxury. Or at least that’s what it seems to be. The way these days it’s quantified and sold back to you. You buy a watch or a ring or a gadget that promises to tell you how well you slept ...

In 1974, Sun Ra landed his spaceship in Oakland in Space Is the Place and, opening up an Outer Space Employment Agency on the street, recruited local Black folks to come work on a new planet, a place ...

As anyone who was into jungle in the 90s will know, the MCs were almost always the ones fans could remember the names of. Kool FM may have brought the jungle sound to listeners out of Hackney, but it ...